Pandemic Paradox: Navigating Technology in the Time of COVID-19

As the race to contain COVID-19 continues, new technology has simultaneously become one of our best resources and most significant stumbling blocks, with devices and online platforms being used to spread misinformation, sow division, undermine psychological wellbeing and broaden the scope of government control. Looking at the roles played by social media, news platforms and digital contact-tracing methods in responding to and exacerbating the coronavirus pandemic, Steven Aoun argues that we are in the midst of an infodemic – a parallel, and in some ways no less formidable, contagion.

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